What is Medication Review?

Medication Review (MR) is an internationally unique and innovative product which links to an electronic patient record and reviews the management of diagnosed conditions and the safety of the prescribed medication. The system enables the aggregation of clinical management and prescribing activity into organisationally or geographically based searchable summaries (Dashboards) to monitor and manage quality in healthcare. The historical patient record is analysed and data can be sent to the practice or accessed through secure online pages. Reports can be created on specific and graded interactions between medications, as well as generating alerts on patient conditions and addressing where current products are missing.

Who is Medication Review designed for?

Medication Review is aimed at assisting prescribers, reviewers and managers of prescribing. In addition, it can be useful for auditors of the quality of prescribing and clinical care and commissioners of healthcare. The system has been designed to fit into the NHS and healthcare systems around the world.

Benefits of Medication Review:

• Extracts and analyses pseudonym patient records from clinical systems.
• Analysis has a high volume capacity and is almost in real time.
• Reports can be created on:
  • Number of current drugs on prescription and systemic effects associated with them.
  • Dosage errors.
  • Conditions for which a drug is prescribed and conversely, those conditions for which drugs have no appropriate condition present.
  • Number of controlled drugs and details of schedules.
  • Duplicate ingredients.
  • Highly sensitive and specific drug-drug interactions (graded by clinical reference).
  • Highly sensitive and specific alerts to patient conditions (those to avoid and those where action is necessary if drug prescription is to continue).
  • Risk Scores, enabling for the prioritisation of individuals within a population for action on the Medication Review.
  • Cost Effectiveness of prescribing.

For more information on Medication Review or Drugs Monographs, please contact us via email or call on 0845 113 1000.